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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1933.

WHEAT ADVISORY

COMMITTEE

Germany And France

Outline Policies.

MEETING ARRANGED FOR RUSSIA AND "BIG FOUR"

London, To-day.

The Wheat Advisory Committee

continued its session

the Foreign Office. mitted discussed its lative to the Wheat

Cairna.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Sir,

TAXI-CAB REVENUE.

To The Editor "China Mall "]

CELEBRATION OF HOLY YEAR

Bishop Valtorta Issues Pastoral Letter.

CALL TO CATHOLICS

*

THE CHINA MAIL:

To-Day's Short Story.

THE

SHADE OF

PETERBEE

By Michael Kent.

Ichildren were accustomed to Peterbee Sindon because hint of

**

TT was on Thursdays that the Please allow me the use of some

Vanderloo one called "the ghost of "To-day in the world there is an space in your valued columns to re-finordinate craving after pleasure, come to me. On Mondays we miration led him to imitate, the quest if there are any of your associated with yesterday at readers able and willing to inform hatred of suffering, and we forget Sunday, my faith we would have was from New York.

deeply-rooted would go to "Peterbee's," and on elder man in all things. He also The Com-me whether the Meters of the Yellow that we are followers of a crucified a good time then at a theatre. function re- Taxis have been officially checked Master who came on earth to suffer But on this Thursday there was not at Barbizon painting beetroota?"

"Vanderloo?" said Chicot. "Is hè, Agreement and if there is a system of period- and by His suffering redeemed us", no one except little Chicot, who and laid down certain lines of cal checking of the meter as well writes the Right Reverend Bishop draws you the quaint pictures in hand me the lamp of Aladdin or the "Then," said I, "if you will kindly action for Its Secretary Mr. A. as of the mechanisms of the cars. Henry Valtorta, Vicar Apostolic of the "Journal de Samedi." We eat Stone of the Philosophers, by which

I understand that these taxis have Hong Kong, in his Pastoral Letter at the Statistics are being prepared by no depots or overhauling garages for the Holy Year.

garret window and I may procure a few pieces of five the representatives of various im- and as some people are apt to think

watched Paris wake out of day-¦franca, we will go down there and porting countries, including France that even the drivers are not revival of heathenism, of that

"To-day there Is in the world a light,

make merry." kat and Germany, as to the way in careful, and still ignorant of short-heathenism which, rejecting every the brave companions that walked takes a blow on the ribs.

Alas! When I come to think of "Bif!" replied Chicot, like one who | which their Governments are modify-cuts, it behoves that some checking ideal of the supernatural, makes life the Mount of Martyrs only three mid-winter also in my pocket. Not **It is ing their agricultural polley along up on these matters should be a Hines which might be expected to matter of public interest.

an end unto itself; and all too fre-years ago I could weepi Sindon, one ha'penny." result in an improvement in the in-. It is a wonder how the Govern-quently we allow ourselves to be the big American, and Vanderloo, "For myself," said .I, "I hold 'a ternational outlook for wheat prices ment levies ne tax or monopoly on carried away by the current, living whom one called his shadow, Chicot, cheque from Levy for a picture, but M. de Venat, the representative taxis whereas buses pay for a fran-n if unconscious of the devine life Destournelle, Papacini, Medina, these gentlemen at the Folies, or at of France, explained that although chise.

or of our souls."

They have all gone now, left Mont Maxims, will not change a cheque two successive bumper crops had It is a known fact that generally In his call to Catholics, the Bishop martre, where one starves and re- for an artist of Montmartre. What resulted in a considerable export-a taxi brings in on an average saya: "This year the whole Catho-joices in the air of the high peaks sell!"

"No," returned Chicot, getting up. able surplus, the French Govern-840/50 per day, and a fleet of only lie World is celebrating a glorious of Art They have gone into the ment, through agreements to in-10 cars capital about $20,000, brings centennial anniversary, that of the dull, and it is eternally an affair of old. The good God sets his palette big world where folk are fat and "See how it blues over the river, my erense the use of wheat for animalļin a monthly return of about $10,000 Redemption of Mankind.

ha'pence. feeding and by decreasing

Me, I stay here, and a for a brave picture of a day to "I feel it is my duty to exhort you new generation comes to follow the morrow." He turned away from quantity of flour extracted from This affords excellent revenue to to honour in a more than usually vision, but I make no ha'pence. the open window and stood peering wheat, would be able to reduce ex- the colony and as a newspaper is worthy manner this centenary, the They call me "my old," the new ones, at a bit of charcoal work I had on port to an annual figure which for public interest this controversy greatest and most august that con- because I can show them where one an easel. "Hold," he said at last, should have no appreciable effect might interest many, and I am pre- temporary history has to chronicle; can best get the morning coffee, or "I have it. Sir Aliton, the Engili

pared to go more seriously Into for what are the greatest victories how they can raise a franc from the milord, he will change your cheque, Dr. Duering summed up Ger-figures to see if my idea is not of the most famous warriors, the gentlemen of the Mount of Piety. many's agricultural polley respect wrong?

most important discoveries of But the good times are gone. science, the rise and fall of mighty

In effect, they went with that empires and powerful dynasties evening. when compared with the Divine We smoked our cigarettes at the Event of the Redemption of Man-window and looked down over

Paris, with its towers grey as ghosts "Everything in this world is in the river mists. To the right Aeeting and perishable. The one the sun just warmed into crimson. thing that matters is Eternity and one of those exhibitions that rend all that is connected with Eternity, the soul of an artist. What is not eternal is nothing."

upon world prices.

ing cereals as follows:**

the to $15,000.

Firstly, the Government will not take any measures to increase the area sown with wheat or rye, but,

"HARD SWEATER". Hong Kong, Sept. 20, 1933

on the contrary is adopting policies CASANOVA APPEAL kind?

sown with

both

the effect of which will be to re duce the arca graina.

Secondly,

recent exporta of wheat from Germany will be off- Bet by imports of wheat during the present cereal year.

Thirdly, the German Govern-) ment believes that it can material- 17 increase the consumption of wheat in Germany by reducing un-1 employment. Possibilities in this direction are elcarly indicated by. the fact that during the past year: the consumption of wheat in Ger many declined by 9,000,000 quintals, approximately 30,000,000 bushels, as the direct result of German workers eating poletoes ai home instead of taking lunch to their work.

brend

The Committee adjourned until November 27.

·

DISMISSED

$25 Fine Upheld.

CHIEF JUSTICE DELIVERS

JUDGMENT

.

The appeal of the Casanova Dancing Academy against fine of $25 imposed by Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magis- tracy for causing annoyance to a neighbouring resident by the music of an orchestra, was this morning dismissed at the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, the Puisne Judge, Mr. R. E. Lindsell concurring.

Mr. Lea d'Almada, junior, appear led for the appellant.

CANTON TAX ON IMPORTED RICE.

Merchants Demand Abolition,

NOT SATISFIED WITH MODIFICATIONS

Canton, To-day.

Canton rice merchants

are

Deschanel."

"Chic," said I, "you are, in effect, a holy man. The little angels whis- per in your car. Let us go to the

lord, Sir Alston."

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Dangerous Crossing," by Sonia Deane.

"Eh," said Chicot, throwing bis jelgarette over the sill and watching

It blaze down till it crashed like ani inverted rocket in a shower of sparks stair. "Peterbee!" cried Chicot

Just then there was a step on the on the paved court far below, "Eh, my boy, we are going to have a dull I listened for a moment.

"NO, evening,

Let us put on our wed-my child," said I; "he has passed ding garments and go down there the first landing." where one can laugh. It is closing that landing, and the students had The School of Pere Dubois was on day at the salon to-morrow, Sin.

don will work on his picture all hung above the door a great gong night. I was there this afternoon for an ornament. Sindon could 1: He has locked himself in."

never pass it by without beating

“Hold!” said I... "Is there but upon it with his stick, "Ran-tan-tan! Peterbee? What of Vanderloo?"

tani tan!"

"We will see when he comes to, the turn of the stairs," said Chi-

sgitating against the Impol ADDRESS TO ROTARY cot. "I wish it is Peterbee. One

tion of a special tax on import- ed rice.

Besides verbal protestation to the

A meeting between Russia and His Lordship, delivering judg- the four chief exparting countries, ment, said: The appellant claims authorities, they have announced Old Canada, Argentina, Australia and that the present charge is outside their decision to suspend the im- the United Staten, to consider the scope of the Summary Offences portation of foreign rice until natis- wheat quotas,

will be held next Ordinances, 1932, which is founded faction is obtained in the settlement week.British Wireless Service,

CANADA'S CALL FOR SETTLERS

Imperial Migration Scheme Plans.

on the original Ordinance of 1844, of the case with the Government.

CLUB

And New Methods

In Education.

UNIVERSITY LECTURER'S

is never dull with that one."

This good Sindon was one ́of

customs. those boys who pick up a heap of It was that perhaps which made him so much a leader, They mark the individual, centring the attention like the point of red In a landscape. He was very strong; and always happy, like a wind out of the sea, such as one finds along! Mr. G. W. Reeve, lecturer in Logic fought with the American corps of the Breton shore. One says he had this subject. More recent legiala- cluding the assessment of tax rates and Ethics at the University of aviation, and that is easily believed, tion succeeds to earlier limitations ad valorem instead of $1.00 for each Hong Kong, was the speaker at yes- but I do not know, for he did not and the Court considers that the picul, the rice merchants are press-terday's weekly meeting of the talk of it. Magistrate rightly rejected this sub-ing for its complete abolition.

and never contemplated music as an affensive noise.

Although the Canton Financial. Department has promised to make

The Court has taken time to con- certain alterations in the regulation sider the course of legislation on for the imposition of the tax, in-

mission.

(C.P.R. PRESIDENT URGES DRIVE existence of a remedy by injunction The suggestion made that the

precludes an aggrieved citizen from A new migration drive from prosecuting for a nuisance of noise Great Britain to Canada was is not worthy of consideration. suggested in a recent speech by

Mr. F. W. Beatty, president of

the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The time was opportune, he

:said, for Canada to enter upon a

News In Brief.

H.M.S. Suffolk, which arrived in

"definite pokey of immigration, Hong Kong this brains, is to re- particularly from Great Britain.main.here until December, when

"The paucity of our population she will sail for the North.

is still a drawback, in view of the

Central News Agency.

WIRELESS STATIONS IN CHINA. Sianfu Now Working.

PLANS FOR EXTENDING POLITICAL CONTROL

SPEECH

Rotary Club at Gloucester Building, ever good companions, frank and These Americans are taking as his subject old and new marry. Add to that, that Peterbes ideas regarding education.

Botarian T. B. Wilson presided, blue bad man!

was an artist. Name of a little and guests welcomed were Rotarian But the world knows that now, and What an artist); W. Yinson Lee, Shanghai, Dr. L. J.I am proud that I was.

once his Davis, Dr. L. G. Saunders, of Bas friend. As I said, the big chap katoon University, Canada

and could never came up my stair with Messrs. Lee Fong (Canton), T. E. out, banging the drum of Father Robson and E, Stevenson,

Under the old regime, said Mr.the seven steps to my door in one Dubois, or without trying to mount Reeve, children were rather a nul-bound. Six he could clear. One sance until they grew up. Even would hear his too catch on the parents thought they should be seen seventh, allp, and he would drop like Nanking, To-day, and not heard. The stress was laid boy whom the great Georges had external and internal obligations Sham Chi-ming, knocked down by announces that, the wireless station tion, both excellent aims if the would hear him cry: "Next time, The Ministry of Communications on discipline, and character forms tapped on the chin, "Bit!” One of Canada. I do not think this a tram-car in Wanchal yesterday at Slanfe has been completed and methods were reasonable, but highly by the great Mike, I will, anoceed," country has anything to fear was admitted to the Government opened for traffic with the stations unsatisfactory and injurious if not. and one knew it was Peter B. Bin- from a deliberate, but, of course, Civil Hospital last evening, suffering of the various leading cities in the not extreme, policy of admission from injuries to the head.

To-day the attitude towards don of those of our own race' in parti-

Northern and Eastern Provinces. children had changed to a remark-

Plans for the constraction of abis degree: so much so that there advanced slow and soft as a Swiss But we listened, and the steps

·cular,

The annual general meeting of the wireless stations In Hsinkdang, were some of the old school who in a cathedral when one singe "Results might be expected, Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society Shenal and Western Mongolia, in shook their beads and predicted Benediction.- I believe, in a year or two from will be held in the Board Room, order to facilitate the Central disaster, What then were the new"Perhaps it is Gaspard," sald plans for inter-Empire migra Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Government's exercise of its ideas expressed, in this changed at Chicot tion which are now being work. Ltd., on Friday, September 29, at authority over the nort ed out in the United Kingdom. 5.65 p.m.

western {titude?end

Them came a soft pad of fingers "No cost to the Government

Provinces, are under consideration. Discipline should no longer be on the panels of our door, would be involved by these peo-

Central News Agenc A film on Anti-Malarial Measures

imposed as a coercive measure, but "Enter" I cried." ple's going on the land in Canada will be shown to the Hong Kong

should be exercised so as to fomber It was Medina. Mr, Thomas's Hope,

University Medical Society, at its CANTON AIR SHOW Children could not be made to work dow, for he did not love this black Laskits · growth from within the child, Chicot turned away to the win- Mr. J. H. Thomas, Secretaryer 22, In room 'g at 6.15 pm. general meeting on Friday, Septem for, the Dominions, when asked Dr, A. B. Jackson, the Government

POSTPONED. by foron of will but they would learn wolder of Spain. to comment on Mr. Beatty's Malariologist, has kindly consented

polly if "He Don Quixote, it is not often statement, said he had nothing to lecture on the occasion. Members

you make vinita". Kënald, to say on the matter, and friends are cordially invited.

be polite

He added, however, no one red

will welcome the development of In connection with the migration more than I, when celebrations on TTA

the prospects are such that they (October 21), and offer work for those leaving Engber 28) it is hoped

land.

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